{"id":184,"date":"2015-05-28T16:11:34","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T20:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bactp.com\/?page_id=184"},"modified":"2026-08-05T16:37:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T20:37:48","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bactp.com\/index.php\/history\/","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>In the spring of 1989, Brent Dugan, pastor of Community Presbyterian Church of Ben Avon, hosted a meeting with members of the community who had background and experience in high school, amateur, and professional theater. He presented the idea of starting a local theater group.\u201d That group became Community Theatre Players.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The first production was\u00a0<strong><em>The Mouse that Roared<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0in the fall of 1989.\u00a0 It was performed in the Program Center of the Community Presbyterian Church of Ben Avon, which was the former Woodland UP Church on Woodland and Dickson Avenues in Ben Avon.\u00a0 The structure was destroyed by fire in 1991, but Community Theatre Players continued to thrive and produce plays, often two in a year.<\/div>\n<p>Since 1989 Community Theatre Players has staged quality theatrical productions in Ben Avon. Currently we present one major production in the fall and several smaller events throughout the year. If you are interested in seeing our full list of shows and events, please visit our <a href=\"https:\/\/bactp.com\/past-productions\/\">Past Productions page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Community Theatre Players perform in the Fellowship Hall of the Community Presbyterian Church of Ben Avon, 7501 Church Ave, Ben Avon, Pa. 15202.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the spring of 1989, Brent Dugan, pastor of Community Presbyterian Church of Ben Avon, hosted a meeting with members of the community who had background and experience in high school, amateur, and professional theater. He presented the idea of starting a local theater group.\u201d That group became Community Theatre Players. The first production was\u00a0The&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more navbutton\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bactp.com\/index.php\/history\/\">Read More<i class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-184","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bactp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bactp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bactp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bactp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bactp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/bactp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1321,"href":"https:\/\/bactp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/184\/revisions\/1321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bactp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}